"... They died too young and early ..."

1. Leslie Carter

Soundtrack | Shrek

Leslie Barbara Carter was born on June 6, 1986, in Tampa, Florida, into the family of Robert Gene Carter (aka Robert Carter) and his wife Jane Elizabeth Carter (née Spaulding) and become the third of their five children. Her parents were divorced in 2003 after more than 20 years of marriage. Leslie...

2. Nicole DeHuff

Actress | Meet the Parents

Nicole DeHuff was born on 6 January 1975 in Oklahoma. She began her acting studies at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Acting Conservatory. Her first screen role was in the comedy hit Meet the Parents (2000), in which she co-starred with Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. Her character (Deborah Byrnes)...

3. Brittany Murphy

Actress | Clueless

Brittany Murphy was born Brittany Anne Bertolotti on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, to Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti. Her father's ancestry is Italian, and her mother is of Irish and Slovak descent. Her father moved the family back to Edison, New Jersey as a native New...

4. Jennifer Lyon

Actress | Long Pig

Jennifer Lyon was born on February 27, 1972 in Boulder City, Nevada, USA. She was an actress, known for Long Pig (2008), Daddy Day Camp (2007) and Cannibal Feast (2011). She died on January 19, 2010 in Sublimity, Oregon, USA.

5. Kerry McGregor

Actress | The Book Group

Born in Pumpherston, West Lothian, Scotland, Kerry McGregor had an extraordinary life of triumph over tragedy with so many people describing her attitude as an inspiration to us all. Kerry's first set back was the loss of her father George, who died in a road traffic accident when she was just 5 ...

6. Rana Fisher

Actress | Cattle Call

Rana Fisher was born on April 18, 1972 in Houston, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Cattle Call (2006), Pomegranate (2005) and Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (2006). She died on August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

7. Ashley N. Lance

Actress | Salvation

Raven haired beauty, whose intellect and impressive abilities is only exceeded by her popularity. Widely regarded as possessing a remarkable aptitude and passion for dance, Ashley grew up living with her father in the Bay Area of Northern California. She began taking dance lessons when she was ...

8. Natalie Wood

Actress | Rebel Without a Cause

Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.

Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...

9. Gia Allemand

Actress | Ghost Trek: The Kinsey Report

Gia Allemand was born on December 20, 1983 in Howard Beach, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Ghost Trek: The Kinsey Report (2011), Ghost Trek: Goomba Body Snatchers Mortuary Lockdown (2013) and Bachelor Pad (2010). She died on August 14, 2013 in New Orleans, ...

10. Sharon Tate

Actress | Valley of the Dolls

Sharon's early life was one of constant moving as her father served in the military. When she lived in Italy, she was voted "Homecoming Queen" of her high school. After being an extra in a few Italian films, Sharon headed to Hollywood where she would again start as an extra. Her first big break ...

11. Gina Mastrogiacomo

Actress | Goodfellas

Gina Mastrogiacomo was born on November 5, 1961 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Goodfellas (1990), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Jungle Fever (1991). She died on May 2, 2001 in Oceanside, California, USA.

12. Romy Schneider

Actress | L'important c'est d'aimer

Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 in Vienna, Austria into a family of actors. Making her film debut at the age of 15, her breakthrough came two years later in the very popular trilogy Sissi (1955). Her mother, supervising her daughter's career, immediately approved Romy's participation ...

13. Grace Kelly

Actress | Dial M for Murder

On November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to wealthy parents. Her girlhood was uneventful for the most part, but one of the things she desired was to become an actress which she had decided on at an early age. After her high school graduation in 1947, Grace ...

14. Christina Grimmie

Soundtrack | The Matchbreaker

Christina Grimmie was an American actress, singer, song writer, and YouTube sensation. Grimmie is known as 'zeldaxlove64' on YouTube. Grimmie gained recognition after posting covers of popular songs on YouTube. She also placed 2nd Runner up on The Voice. On June 10, 2016, Grimmie was shot three ...

15. Whitney Houston

Soundtrack | The Bodyguard

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston (née Emily Lee Drinkard) and John Russell Houston, Jr., and cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick.

She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope ...

16. Princess Diana

Self | Charles & Diana: Never Meant to Be

Princess Diana was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her an enduring popularity.

Diana was born into the British nobility ...

17. Marilyn Monroe

Actress | Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. Monroe is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. She became one of the world's most enduring iconic figures and is remembered both for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal and ...

18. Anna Nicole Smith

Actress | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Anna Nicole Smith was born on November 28, 1967 in Houston, Texas, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), Be Cool (2005) and Illegal Aliens (2007). She was married to J. Howard Marshall II and Billy Smith. She died on February 8, 2007 in Hollywood...

19. Sunny Johnson

Actress | Flashdance

Sunny Johnson was born on September 21, 1953 in San Bernardino County, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Flashdance (1983), The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981) and Where the Buffalo Roam (1980). She died on June 19, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

20. Adrienne Shelly

Actress | Waitress

The late Adrienne Shelly was born in Queens, New York, to Elaine Langbaum and Sheldon Levine. After graduating Jericho High School in Jericho, New York, she enrolled at Boston University and majored in film production. She dropped out after her junior year and moved to Manhattan, where she made a ...

21. Lisa Blount

Actress | An Officer and a Gentleman

Lisa Blount was an actress who appeared in numerous films and television shows, most notably as Lynette Pomeroy in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Along with her husband, actor Ray McKinnon, she received an Academy Award for the 2002 short ...

22. Aaliyah

Soundtrack | Romeo Must Die

Talented. Beautiful. Modest. These three words described R&B singer-turned-actress Aaliyah perfectly.

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Diane (Hankerson) and Michael Haughton. Her uncle was music manager Barry Hankerson and her brother is director Rashad Haughton. Aaliyah was ...

23. Casey Johnson

Self | The Fabulous Life of

Casey Johnson was born on September 24, 1979 in Hollywood, Florida, USA. She died on January 4, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

24. Gia McGinley

Actress | Only in America

Passed tragically from this life during childbirth along with her precious infant son Samson James Romanelli on September 30, 2011. She is the cherished wife of Charlie Romanelli, loving mother of Nathaniel Scott Romanelli and Charles Thompson Romanelli, devoted daughter of Madeline (Mazzola) ...

25. Tina Wiseman

Actress | Dark Confessions

Tina Wiseman was born in Pearl Harbor Hospital in Hawaii. Her father was a sailor based in Hawaii (he was raised on a farm in Ohio). Her mother was born and raised in American Samoa. Tina moved to Hawaii to continue her education. She was a Samoan princess, being the granddaughter of the high chief...

26. Jean Harlow

Actress | China Seas

Harlean Carpenter, who later became Jean Harlow, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. She was the daughter of a successful dentist and his wife. In 1927, at the age of 16, she ran away from home to marry a young businessman named Charles McGrew, who was 23. The couple pulled up ...

27. Margaux Hemingway

Actress | Killer Fish

Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in on a farm in Ketchum, Idaho. But dad was Jack Hemingway, son of the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and, with that heritage, fame was almost foreordained. By the time she was 21, after the lead in the rape melodrama Lipstick (1976), she had a ...

28. Holly Lewis

Actress | Oscar

Holly Lewis was born on December 26, 1965 in Grand Island, Nebraska. The daughter of Cortez and Rita Lewis, Holly grew up in Litchfield, Nebraska participating in such activities as speech, drama, and athletics. Lewis won the outstanding performer in a Nebraska State one-act play production in 1983...

29. Heather Philipsen

Actress | One Tree Hill

Heather Philipsen was born on March 8, 1975 in New Port Richey, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for One Tree Hill (2003), 99 (2006) and Andre the Butcher (2005). She died on January 18, 2009 in New Port Richey, Florida, USA.

30. Kellie Waymire

Actress | Enterprise

Kellie Waymire was born on July 27, 1967 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Playing by Heart (1998). She died on November 13, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

31. Shana Dowdeswell

Actress | The Big Wedding

Shana Elizabeth Dowdeswell (died December 12, 2012) was born on April 1, 1989 in Harare, Zimbabwe. She then moved to New York City where she attended City and Country School, PS 3, and finally PPAS High School. She also began a career as an actress, beginning at age eight. Over the years, she ...

32. Mindy McCready

Soundtrack | Switchback

Mindy McCready was born on November 30, 1975 in Fort Meyers, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Switchback (1997) and Mindy McCready: Ten Thousand Angels (1996). She died on February 17, 2013 in Heber Springs, Arkansas, USA.

33. Lee Remick

Actress | The Omen

Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Gertrude Margaret (Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner. She had Irish and English ancestry. Remick was educated at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV, before making her film debut as a sexy ...

34. Natasha Richardson

Actress | The Parent Trap

Natasha Jane Richardson was born in Marylebone, London, England, to director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave. She was the sister of actress Joely Richardson, the niece of actors Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, and the granddaughter of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel ...

35. Zoë Lund

Actress | Bad Lieutenant

Zoe Lund was born Zoe Tamerlis to a Swedish mother and Romanian father on February 9, 1962 in New York City. She was an accomplished composer/musician and devout political activist at an early age. In 1981 at age 19, Lund gave a stunning performance as Thana, a mousy, mute garment worker and rape ...

36. Maria Kwiatkowsky

Actress | En garde

Maria Kwiatkowsky was born on April 23, 1985 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for En garde (2004), The Invention of Love (2013) and Liebe Amelie (2005). She died on July 4, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

37. Françoise Dorléac

Actress | L'homme de Rio

The radiant Françoise Dorléac is better remembered today as the elder, ill-fated sister of French film star Catherine Deneuve. The Paris-born actress, however, was actually the first to become a star and had quite a formidable career of her own in the 1960s until it was cut short. Born into a ...

38. Eleanor Mondale

Actress | Drop Dead Fred

Eleanor Mondale was born on January 19, 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for Drop Dead Fred (1991), Ground Control (1998) and 240-Robert (1979). She was married to Chan Poling, Gregory Scott Malban and Keith Van Horne. She died on September 17, 2011 in Prior Lake, ...

39. Mónica Spear

Actress | La mujer perfecta

Miss Spear was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004 and was 4th runner-up in the 2005 Miss Universe Pageant. Prior to competing in beauty pageants, Miss Spear bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Central Florida. Miss Spear went on to become one of the most popular and successful soap ...

40. Dana Reeve

Actress | Everyone's Hero

Dana Reeve was born on March 17, 1961 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Everyone's Hero (2006), Loving (1983) and Oz (1997). She was married to Christopher Reeve. She died on March 6, 2006 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

41. Dominique Laffin

Actress | La femme qui pleure

Dominique Laffin was born on June 3, 1952 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France. She was an actress, known for The Crying Woman (1979), Tell Her That I Love Her (1977) and L'empreinte des géants (1980). She was married to Yvan Dautin. She died on June 12, 1985 in Paris, France.

42. Cecily Adams

Actress | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

American actress, casting director, teacher, and theatrical director. The daughter of nightclub singer Adelaide Adams and Get Smart (1965) star Don Adams, she was born in Queens, New York, several months after her parents' divorce. Raised in peripatetic fashion by her mother, she survived a ...

43. Linda Lovelace

Actress | Deep Throat

Linda Lovelace, the most famous porn star of all time, was born Linda Boreman in 1949. In the late 1960s she began a relationship with Chuck Traynor and eventually married him. She appeared in eight 8mm hardcore fetish loops, including one in which she had sex with a dog. She is most well known for...

44. Marilyn Chambers

Actress | Rabid

Marilyn Chambers was born on April 22, 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Rabid (1977) and Angel of H.E.A.T. (1983). She was married to William Taylor, Jr., Chuck Traynor and Doug Chapin. She died on April 11, 2009 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.

45. Elisabeth Brooks

Actress | The Howling

Elisabeth Brooks Luyties was born on July 2, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Elisabeth Brooks began acting at age five with her career encompassing both stage and screen. She started appearing in television roles in the mid-1970s and managed to pursue her acting career as a single mother while ...

46. Maria Schneider

Actress | Ultimo tango a Parigi

Maria Schneider was a French actress. At age 19 she became famous for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris (1972), and The Passenger (1975).

As a teenager, she adored films, going to the cinema up to four times a week. She left home at 15 after an argument with her mother and went to Paris...

47. Ulla Jacobsson

Actress | Zulu

Ulla Jacobsson was an International Swedish Actress and became world-famous with the film One Summer of Happiness (1951) (English title: "One Summer of Happiness", German title: "Sie tanzte nur einen Sommer") and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) ("Smiles of a Summer Night"), which Zarah Leander made...

48. Romi Koch

Actress | Dead Doll

Romi Koch was born on December 18, 1978 in Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Dead Doll (2004). She died on August 22, 2005 in Ontario, Canada.

49. Janis Joplin

Soundtrack | Watchmen

Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, ...

50. Katrin Cartlidge

Actress | Breaking the Waves

Katrin Cartlidge began her career as a doing backstage & front of house work at London's Royal Court Theatre, having appeared with their Young People's Theatre group. She progressed to appearing in play readings and workshops before winning a regular role in Brookside (1982).

She went on to forge an...

51. Karen ffolkes

Actress | Most Wanted

Karen ffolkes was born on August 28, 1968 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Most Wanted (1997), Banana Moon (2003) and Runt (2005). She was married to Jeffrey Pecot. She died on August 31, 2008 in Glendale, California, USA.

52. Jackie Curtis

Actor | Women in Revolt

Jackie's friendship and professional association with Andy Warhol began in the mid-1960s. He appeared in director Paul Morrissey's Women in Revolt (1971) with Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn and Flesh (1968) with Joe Dallesandro and Candy Darling, presented by Andy Warhol. For these unique films, ...

53. Anita Morris

Actress | Ruthless People

Anita Rose Morris was born on March 14, 1943 in Durham, North Carolina, to Eloise (Chappell), who worked in the theater, and James Badgett Morris, a doctor. Among her many roles, the most prominent film role was as Carol Dodsworth in Ruthless People (1986), and for her sensual performance as Carla ...

54. Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes

Soundtrack | Captain Marvel

Controversial, flamboyant, and spontaneous are probably the best words to describe Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. Born in Philadelphia, and raised throughout the world as the daughter of a U.S. Army serviceman, Lisa Lopes became one of the most important trendsetters in the 1990s music scene. After ...

55. Karen Schmeer

Editor | Sergio

Karen Schmeer was born on February 20, 1970 in Portland, Oregon, USA. Karen was an editor, known for Sergio (2009), My Father, the Genius (2002) and The Fog of War (2003). Karen died on January 29, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

56. Svetlana Nemirovskaya

Actress | Dark Future

Svetlana Nemirovskaya was born on May 4, 1964 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Dark Future (1994), The Ugly Swans (2006) and Russian Ark (2002). She was married to Aleksei Korostel and Dmitry ?. She died on November 27, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

57. Meredith MacRae

Actress | Bikini Beach

Meredith Lynn MacRae was born on May 30, 1944, in Houston, Texas. She was born on a military base where her father was stationed.

Meredith was bitten by the show business bug at an early age. Her father, Gordon MacRae was a singer and movie idol of the 1950s (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955)...

58. Janet Margolin

Actress | David and Lisa

Pretty, demure-looking Janet Margolin was born in New York City in 1943 and educated at the New York High School of Performing Arts. The long-haired brunette was discovered for films by director Frank Perry as she was making great strides as a teen on Broadway. He saw her in the play "Daughter of ...

59. Lita Tresierra

Actress | The Factory

Lita Tresierra was born in 1977 in Costa Rica. She was an actress, known for The Factory (2012), Durham County (2007) and The Dead Zone (2002). She died on June 21, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

60. Mariana Dimitrova

Actress | Mazhki vremena

Mariana Dimitrova was born on May 28, 1954 in Kozarevetz, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. She was an actress, known for Mazhki vremena (1977), Skapa moya, skapi moy (1986) and Bird of Prey (1995). She was married to Igor Kutsenok, Eduard Zahariev and Panayot Dimitrov. She died on June 1, 2005 in San ...

61. Caroline McWilliams

Actress | Mermaids

Caroline McWilliams was born on April 4, 1945 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Mermaids (1990), Benson (1979) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990). She was married to Michael Keaton. She died on February 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

62. Lorena Gale

Actress | Freddy Got Fingered

Lorena Gale was born on May 9, 1958 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Halloween: Resurrection (2002) and The Butterfly Effect (2004). She was married to John Cooper. She died on June 21, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

63. Kaisa Hämäläinen

Actress | Taivasmatka

This young actress astounded everyone with her profound performance in the acclaimed short film Taivasmatka (2001). Being only thirteen years old by the time of the filming, Kaisa faced a difficult task debuting in the leading role playing a young girl going through an emotional journey. Despite of...

64. Artie Fielder

Born in San Antonio, Texas, and attended Alamo Heights High School. Expecting a boy, Artie's parents named her in honor of her grandfather. She later went on to attend the University of Texas, Austin graduating 1975. Moved to Los Angeles in 1980 to pursue acting. Highly talented in music, her major...

65. Elizabeth McBride

Costume_designer | Driving Miss Daisy

Elizabeth McBride was born on May 17, 1955. She was a costume designer, known for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Assassins (1995). She died on June 16, 1997 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

66. Marisa Mell

Actress | Diabolik

Marisa Mell was born on February 24, 1939 in Graz, Austria. She was an actress, known for Danger: Diabolik (1968), The Great Swindle (1971) and Under Siege (1980). She was married to Henri Tucci. She died on May 16, 1992 in Vienna, Austria.

67. Mia Amber Davis

Actress | Road Trip

Mia Amber Davis was born on July 25, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Road Trip (2000), Girl Crazy (2007) and Holla If I Kill You (2003). She was married to Mike Yard. She died on May 10, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

68. Paula O'Hara

Actress | American Gun

Paula O'Hara was born on October 31, 1955 in Kingston, Jamaica. She was an actress, known for American Gun (2002), Silverfox (1991) and The Set Up (1995). She was married to James Coburn and John Michael Twombly. She died on July 30, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

69. Michelle Thomas

Actress | The Young and the Restless

Michelle Thomas was born in Boston but raised in New York and New Jersey. She attended the Montclair School of Arts and the Broadway Dance Center. She is survived by her mother, Phynjuar Thomas (a stage actress and acting coach); her brother, David Thomas; her grandfather, Cecil G. Saunders, Sr.; ...

70. Nicole Dolci

Actress | Reunion

Nicole Dolci was born on September 2, 1974 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Reunion (2005) and Elmer Gantry 2000 (2000). She died on March 31, 2009 in Hollywood, California, USA.

71. Wendie Jo Sperber

Actress | Back to the Future

Though she was known best for drawing laughs as whiny, excitable characters throughout her raucous film and TV career, actress/comedienne Wendie Jo Sperber showed a brave, compassionate and humane side in the last years of her life.

The California girl was born on September 15, 1958, in Los Angeles ...

72. Laurie Bird

Actress | Two-Lane Blacktop

Laurie Bird was a cute and charming actress who appeared in only three pictures during her regrettably short-lived career. Bird was born on September 26, 1953 in Long Island, New York. Laurie was working as a model when she was chosen by director Monte Hellman, from nearly 500 women, to portray "...

73. Breena Camden

Producer | The Making of 'One Hour Photo'

Breena Camden was born on October 1, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Breena was a producer, known for The Making of 'One Hour Photo' (2002). Breena died on August 6, 2012 in Rocklin, California, USA.

74. Yekaterina Golubeva

Actress | J'ai pas sommeil

Yekaterina Golubeva was born on October 9, 1966 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. She was an actress and writer, known for I Can't Sleep (1994), 977 (2006) and Projection. She was married to Sharunas Bartas. She died on August 3, 2011 in Paris, France.

75. Lois Hamilton

Actress | The Cannonball Run

Lois Hamilton (Areno) personified a new wave of actresses who built careers on both beauty and brains. Lois attend Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennslyvannia, and the University of Florence in Florence, Italy, where she received degrees in Psychology and Fine Arts. As a top Ford model in the ...

76. Dana Plato

Actress | Diff'rent Strokes

Dana Michelle Plato was born in Maywood, California, on Saturday, November 7, 1964. Her first excursion into the film world occurred when she was 11 in the television film Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975). Dana never made an impact on the TV screen until she landed the role of Kimberly Drummond ...

77. Cheryl Kosewicz

Self | Pirate Master

Cheryl Kosewicz was born on November 11, 1971 in Grand Coulee, Washington, USA. She died on July 27, 2007 in Sparks, Nevada, USA.

78. Valérie Quennessen

Actress | Conan the Barbarian

Valerie Quennessen became an actress almost by accident. She started out performing as a child as an acrobat. She was very accomplished in this field and won an award at the age of ten. However, she hadn't seriously considered performing for a living. In her late teens, she enrolled in acting ...

79. Mary Ellen Trainor

Actress | The Goonies

Mary Ellen Trainor was born in Chicago, Illinois. She appeared in many feature-films of the 1980s, notable characters include, Elaine, the kidnapped sister of Kathleen Turner and the catalyst for the entire plot in Romancing the Stone (1984), Dr. Stephanie Woods (LA Police Psychiatrist) in in all ...

80. Dominique Dunne

Actress | Poltergeist

Dominique Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer. Actor Griffin Dunne is her brother. After her parents' divorce, she moved first to New York, and then to Beverly Hills. Upon graduation from high ...

81. Juanin Clay

Actress | WarGames

Juanin Clay was born on November 26, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for WarGames (1983), The Edge of Night (1956) and The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981). She was married to Joe Lambie. She died on March 12, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

82. Delle Chatman

Writer | Snoops

Delle Chatman was born on November 19, 1951 in Virginia. Among her many talents, she was an author, TV screenwriter, educator, filmmaker, and photographer.

Her television writing credits include 1998's Free of Eden and 1989's Runaway.

She died following a long battle with ovarian cancer at her home in...

83. Cassandra Harris

Actress | For Your Eyes Only

Cassandra Harris was born on December 15, 1942 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for For Your Eyes Only (1981), Remington Steele (1982) and Rough Cut (1980). She was married to Pierce Brosnan, Dermot Harris and William Firth. She died on December 28, 1991 in Los ...

84. Sophiya Haque

Actress | Wanted

Sophia Haque rose to fame as a VJ/host on pop-music channels broadcast by India in the 1990s (via satellite). Her amiable personality and attractive appearance made her a favorite with many viewers, and led to her being offered bit parts in Indian films. A lead role in the low-budget comedy film '...

85. Antoine Ashley

Actor | 15 Films About Madonna

Antoine Ashley was born on December 17, 1984 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for 15 Films About Madonna (2006), Manila Luzon: Hot Couture (2012) and RuPaul's Drag Race (2009). He died on October 1, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

86. Jenni Rivera

Actress | Filly Brown

Dolores Janney "Jenni" Rivera was a Mexican-American actress, singer-songwriter, T.V. producer, spokesperson, philanthropist & entrepreneur known for her work within the banda and norteña music genres. She began recording in 1992, and her recordings often have themes of social issues, infidelity & ...

87. Jean Seberg

Actress | À bout de souffle

Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to substitute teacher Dorothy Arline (Benson) and pharmacist Edward Waldemar Seberg. Her father was of Swedish descent and her mother was of English and German ancestry.

One month before her 18th birthday, Jean landed the title role in Otto ...

88. Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge

Actress | New York Story

Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge was born on July 1, 1969 in New York, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for New York Story (2007), Thee Majesty: Live à la Fondation Cartier (2004) and The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011). She was married to Genesis P-Orridge. She died on October 9...

89. Jayne Mansfield

Actress | The Girl Can't Help It

One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J. (nee Palmer; later Peers) and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney ...

90. Jessica Hammerschlag

Producer | Chasing Holden

Jessica Hammerschlag was born on September 17, 1973 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer, known for Chasing Holden (2003) and March (2001). She died on August 27, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

91. Wende Wagner

Actress | Rosemary's Baby

Beautiful, vibrant-looking 60s actress Wende Wagner (her real name) was born in Connecticut in 1941. Of French, German and Native American heritage, her exotic looks would later serve her well on TV and in motion pictures. She inherited her athletic genes from her parents; her father was a former ...

92. Jane Cusumano

Director | What Matters Most

In June of 2000, two years after putting her breast cancer in remission, Jane Cusumano founded Chateau Wally Films with her husband and businessman, James Cusumano. The mission of the company is to produce high-quality films that address human conditions and touch the hearts and souls of their ...

93. Lynne Frederick

Actress | Nicholas and Alexandra

Lynne Frederick was a talented British actress of the 1970s. She had a unique combination of good looks and charm which captivated audiences for a decade. Although best known as the fourth and final wife of British comedian Peter Sellers, Lynne has developed a cult following in recent years. Before ...

94. Selena

Soundtrack | Don Juan DeMarco

Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, 50 miles southeast of Houston, to Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcella Quintanilla. Abraham opened a Mexican restaurant, Papagayo, in Lake Jackson. Selena was 9 years old when her father discovered her talent for singing. He formed a band consisting of Selena...

95. Elizabeth Peña

Actress | Rush Hour

As she inherited her love for the arts by her father, well-known playwright, actor, director and novelist Mario Peña, it is not hard to understand that actress Elizabeth Pena already had designs to become an actress by the time she was eight years old.

Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on September 23, ...

96. Misty Upham

Actress | August: Osage County

Misty Anne Upham, born in Kallispell, Montana, grew up in south Seattle, the fourth of five children. She began her career at the age of thirteen when she joined a community theater group, Red Eagle Soaring. What began as a summer workshop soon turned into a full-time job. By the age of fourteen ...

97. Carolyn Jones

Actress | The Man Who Knew Too Much

Carolyn Jones was born April 28, 1930, in Amarillo, Texas. Her mother was Jeannette and her sister was Bette (Moriarty). She was an imaginative child, much like her mother. In 1934, her father abandoned the family and her mother moved them in with her parents, also in Amarillo. As a child Carolyn ...

98. Vanessa Marquez

Actress | Stand and Deliver

Sweet-voiced California native Vanessa Marquez had a passion for acting from an early age and wanted to be a child actress like young starlets she admired, such as Judy Garland, Shirley Temple, and Bessie Love. She sent letters to producers and agents hoping to be noticed, and as they went ...

99. Cass Elliot

Soundtrack | Free Guy

Cass Elliot was born Ellen Naomi Cohen on September 19, 1941, in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up in the Washington D.C. environs and in her senior year of high school, performed in a summer stock production of "The Boyfriend" at the Owings Mills Playhouse, where she played the French nurse who ...

100. Katarina Morhacova

Actress | For All Mankind

Katarina Morhacova is an Award-winning stage and TV/film actress. Originally from ex-Czechoslovakia, she lives in LA and NYC. She speaks English, French, Italian, Russian, Czech and Slovak. Katarina is also a writer, producer and philanthropist. She's an avid dancer and traveler.

Educated at MXAT, ...